the Ominous
Player Title
<Name> the Ominous Achievement
the Ominous is the title reward of the achievement Lighting the Dark (filed under Delves).
Details
In game this title prints after your character's name. The client stores it as the format string %s the Ominous, where %s is the character wearing it.
How to Obtain
Earned from this achievement:
What the Achievement Asks
The client’s own line for Lighting the Dark is “Defeat Nullaeus in his lair on Tier ?? before the release of the next season of delves.”
Who Is Wearing It
477 of the 257,859 ranked PvP characters in our own leaderboard snapshot are wearing “the Ominous” right now, which is 0.18% of them. The snapshot was last refreshed on 5 November 2026.
- 477 displaying it
- rank 82 of 581 worn titles
- 272 Alliance
- 205 Horde
- 259 in EU
- 218 in US
581 different titles are being displayed across that snapshot, and this one sits at number 82 by wearers.
The specialisation those characters play most is Protection (35 of them), ahead of Demonology (31), Unholy (29).
Counted from the characters on the current PvP ladders we refresh, not from every player in the game: Blizzard publishes no ownership figure for a title. Browse the leaderboards those characters come from.